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Well I was hoping they didn't get swept during any of the four killer series they have had or will have to play and they haven't. As far as I'm concerned they are playing with house money today, let's see what they can do.

You sir are completely out of your fucking mind. Just like when you wrote that I was being used by the Sox regarding things that I write and have written.

Yamamoto is really good, since the Sox had no chance to win I was hoping he'd get the no-no. See what they may be able to do on Sunday.

Try listening to the original version of the song by Syl Johnson 1975.

SIX factoids today: June 13, 1946 - He set records that will never be broken including winning an incredible 40 games in 1908 and on this day Ed Walsh, White Sox star pitcher was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Walsh played all but four games in his 14-year career with the Sox leading the A.L. in various categories between 1904 and 1912 including games played, games started, complete games, shut outs, games finished, saves, innings pitched, strikes outs and wins. In his miraculous 1908 season Walsh in addition to the 40 wins, threw 464 innings with an ERA of 1.41. He had a great fastball as well as a mean spitball (which was a legal pitch at the time.) June 13, 1953 – The White Sox made a deal with the St. Louis Browns that would be to their advantage as they traded two players and 75,000 thousand dollars for two players including pitcher Virgil “Fire” Trucks. Trucks would step right into the rotation and win, finishing the season at 20-10 with a 2.93 ERA. The following year he won 19 games making the All-Star team, saving the game for the American League in Cleveland. His ERA that year was 2.79. Then in 1955, his last year with the team he’d win 13 more games. Trucks would also fire a pair of one-hitters in his time on the South Side. June 13, 1957 - The Sox and Yankees hooked up in perhaps the greatest ‘base-brawl’ in history. In the first inning at Comiskey Park, New York’s Art Ditmar threw a pitch at the head of the Sox Larry Doby. As the pitch rolled to the wall, Ditmar ran to cover home. Doby warned Ditmar about the pitch and then threw a left hook which dropped him. The fight appeared to have racial overtones and lasted a full 30 minutes. Chicago native and future Sox player Bill "Moose" Skowron jumped on Doby which brought Walt Dropo into the fray. Dropo was 6-5, 220 pounds, and a monster for his time. At various times, “Whitey” Ford, Casey Stengel, "Jungle" Jim Rivera and Enos "Country" Slaughter were in the middle of it. Slaughter’s jersey and undershirt were ripped to pieces and his hat was backwards in one of the most famous photographs of the 1950's. After things settled down Billy Martin rushed into things and started in on Doby. Five players were ejected and fined for the melee. New York won the game 4-3. June 13, 1966 - The Sox traded relief pitcher Eddie Fisher to the Orioles for infielder Jerry Adair. Fisher was an All-Star in 1965 and the Fireman of the Year but the Sox had incredible bullpen depth thanks to the anchor, Hoyt Wilhelm, up and coming pitcher Bob Locker and youngster Dennis Higgins. June 13, 1978 - It was one of the greatest comebacks by any team in franchise history. After trailing Cleveland 9-0 going into the bottom of the third inning, the Sox wound up winning the game 10-9! They scored six runs in the third, four runs in the fourth inning and hung on to win. They scored 10 runs without benefit of a home run. Wayne Nordhagen led the way with three RBI’s. Rich Hinton went over six innings in relief allowing only a run on five hits to get the win. June 13, 1997 - Interleague play began with the Sox in Cincinnati. Ray Durham inaugurated it with a leadoff home run. The Sox would beat the Reds 3-1 behind the pitching of Wilson Alvarez and Roberto Hernandez. All three Sox runs scored on home runs by Durham and Albert Belle.

1990 the "Doin' the Little Things..." club.

Josh Hader

That's his slamball/UFC background. It simply doesn't translate.

Your dad has unusual tastes! 😄

This is really very much appreciated given what we have all been through for the past decade plus overall. Well done again.

He did but I thought I saw where he was back working out.

You may be confusing me with someone else, I've contributed to books on the Sox, wrote two chapters in the next one Dr. Fletcher is putting out, but I've never written one on my own.

Connor did the first two innings. Costas was doing what the Sox asked him to do according to the interview in the Sun-Times.

I'll see if I can get around to doing something like that. I also have framed newspapers from when they made the playoffs in 1983, 1993, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2020 and 2021. I've done a lot of work for the Sox and they have been very kind in passing along a lot of items as a 'thank you.' For example I have a brick from the original Comiskey Park, signed jerseys from Konerko, Moncada, Ramirez and Quintana, signed balls from Sale, Anderson, Abreu, Moncada plus a number of signed photos including guys that played in the 1950's and 60's like Pierce, Ward, Hansen, Kaat.

Costas said he was told by the Sox they did not want him doing play by play (and he said in an interview he wasn't taking the gig if they insisted on it), that he was there to talk about the Sox of the 1980's that Connor was supposed to be handling that end. He said that he 'called' Montgomery's game winner because 'someone had to do it.'

Wish you all the best.

EIGHT factoids today: June 12, 1939 – He was a founding father of the White Sox and also of the American League. Charles Comiskey “The Old Roman” was inducted into the Hall of Fame on this date. Comiskey a former successful player/manager in St. Louis, got together with Byron “Ban” Johnson and others to start the American League in January 1901. He had already moved his St. Paul, Minnesota team to the South Side before this where they have remained ever since. The White Sox became a charter member of the new league which by 1903 was playing the National League champion in the World Series. Comiskey owned and ran the White Sox from 1900 until his death in 1931. Under his watch the Sox won the World Series in both 1906 and 1917 and lost the series in 1919 under a cloud of suspicion. They also won the American League pennant in 1900 although at the time that was not recognized as a legitimate Major League. June 12, 1939 – On this date White Sox second baseman Eddie Collins entered the Hall of Fame. Collins is regarded by some as the finest second baseman ever to play the game. He was sold to the White Sox in 1914 by the Philadelphia A’s for 50,000 thousand dollars, an unheard-of sum for the time but he was worth every penny. Collins played 12 years for the White Sox, 10 times hitting over .300. Nine times he amassed over 150 hits in a season including a staggering 224 hits in 1920 when he batted .372. Between the A’s and the White Sox he racked up a total of 3,315 hits in his career. June 12, 1967 - The Sox played the longest game that they lost, in their history, when they dropped a 6-5 decision to the Senators in Washington. The game went 22 innings. Both teams scored a run in the 10th then didn’t score again until the Nats Paul Casanova drove home the winner in the last of the 22nd. Johnny Buzhardt tossed eight innings in relief before giving up the run that cost him the game. Sox outfielder Walt Williams had 10 at bats in the contest. The night game took 6:38 minutes and ended at 2:43 AM Washington time. Both teams went the entire game without an error which is the A.L. record. The contest was played in temperatures around 90 degrees which prompted an angry Sox manager, Eddie Stanky afterwards, to demand implementation of a league curfew. Sox outfielder Ken Berry was playing so shallow on Casanova’s hit that he threw to second hoping to start an inning ending double play to no avail as future Sox infielder Hank Allen crossed the plate with the winning run. June 12, 1972 - Sox slugger Dick Allen appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. (Teammate Tom Egan was in the background putting on his shin guards) It was one of the most unusual and unique covers in the history of the magazine. The cover’s caption read, “Season of Surprises. Chicago’s Dick Allen Juggles His Image.” June 12, 1981 - A players strike began, wiping out almost two months of the baseball season after owners insisted on wanting player compensation for any free agent signed… in essence instead of a free agent signing, a trade. When both sides agreed to resume the year in August, the owners came up with a bizarre split season format. Sox manager Tony LaRussa, who passed the Florida bar exam and was an exceptional thinker, quickly found a major flaw in the plan and suggested that if it would help the Sox get the second-best record and a spot in the post season, they would throw a late season series to the A’s to guarantee that Oakland would win both halves thus automatically getting the Sox into the post season. Later Cardinals manager “Whitey” Herzog said he would do the same thing for his club. The owners then quickly changed the format to eliminate the potential for teams having to lose games to, in essence, win. June 12, 1985 – In his first Major League start, Bruce Tanner (son of former White Sox skipper Chuck) retired his first nine batters, the longest streak since at least 1960 and a White Sox record which would be broken in 2024 by Nick Nastrini who retired 11 straight. Tanner ended up earning his first and only big-league win, going almost seven innings with seven hits, two earned runs, two walks and three strike outs. The 6-3 win over the Mariners at the Kingdome raised the White Sox record to 30-24 and kept the team a half-game up in the A.L. West. Rudy Law’s two-run double in the fifth held up as the game-winner. Tanner would start three more games for the White Sox and pitch in 10 total in his only MLB season. June 12, 2018 – It’s happened less than the number of fingers on one hand for the franchise. On this night the White Sox opened up their game at Guaranteed Rate Field with Yoan Moncada blasting a home run to center field. The next hitter Yolmer Sanchez then hit another home run…again to center field. It was a great way to start a game as the Sox went on to beat Cleveland 5-1. Both home runs came off Indians starting pitcher Adam Plutko. It was the fourth time in franchise history the Sox would lead off a game with back-to-back home runs. June 12, 2021 – Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you do, you just can’t lose. For Sox pitcher Dylan Cease that meant facing the Detroit Tigers. Cease, backed by a 13-hit assault, handled Detroit 15-2 at Comerica Park and in doing so ran his career record against them to 8-0. In eight starts, he had 47 strikeouts and an ERA of 2.09. He also became the first Sox pitcher ever to win his first eight starts against a single club breaking the record of Mark Buehrle who went 7-0 against the Texas Rangers in his first seven starts against them.

I have a number of items but two of the ones that I like the best are the actual front page (framed) of the Chicago Sun-Times the day after they won the pennant in 1959 (I sent the Sox the rest of the newspaper) and three framed autographed baseball card collections from Sox players that I've interviewed. Each frame holds between 10-15 cards.

Famous Kap's (which shows how unprofessional he is) Appearing on set in a specially made Cubs jersey with the name Pujois on the back Saying the next Cubs manager would be Joe Girardi Saying the Cubs would not be outbid for Masahiro Tanaka Guy is an idiot.

Three factoids today: June 11, 1939 - Sox pitcher Ted Lyons began his streak of 41 consecutive innings pitched without issuing a walk. The streak would last through his game on July 23 when he walked the Yankees Frank Crosetti to lead off the game. In 172 innings pitched that season Lyons would only walk 27 hitters, one intentionally. June 11, 1959 – It was the fourth and last one-hitter in Billy Pierce’s White Sox career. On this date he beat the Senators 3-1 at Griffith Stadium. Shortstop Ron Samford’s double to left leading off the third inning was the Nats only safety. Billy struck out six in the contest but wasn’t guaranteed a win until the Sox scored a pair of runs in the top of the ninth inning. June 11, 1965 – In Washington, in the first game of a double header, the Sox beat the Senators 5-2 to collect the franchise’s 5,000th win. Juan Pizarro got the victory with Eddie Fisher picking up the save. Pete Ward knocked in two runs to lead the Sox offense. Then they’d win the second game 5-4 in 10 innings on a home run by Don Buford. The Sox would go 95-67 that season and finish in second place seven games behind the Twins.

Still early but the 1977 and 1990 vibes are starting to come into play. Unexpected things sometimes happen in baseball. Tough win tonight.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2026/06/10/steve-stone-bob-costas-chsn-throwback-broadcast-white-sox-braden-montgomery-braves

The 2004 team was in first place at the break but when both Ordonez and Thomas went down with season ending injuries that killed any realistic chances.

Four factoids today: June 10, 1952 - Sox outfielder Sam Mele set the franchise record with six RBI’s in one inning. In the fourth inning of a game at Philadelphia, Mele hit a three-run homer, then batted again and knocked in three more with a triple! The Sox sent 15 men to the plate, scored 12 in the frame and would wind up winning it 15-4. They hit three home runs in the 12-run inning including an inside-the-park, three-run home run by Hector Rodriguez. It would be the only home run he ever hit in the Major Leagues. June 10, 1961 - With owner Bill Veeck in ill health, his group sold the White Sox to Chicagoan Art Allyn. Veeck only owned the club for two and a half years the first time around. Allyn paid 2,500,000 thousand dollars for the team. On the same day of the sale, the Sox made an eight-player deal that netted the team pitchers Ray Herbert, Don Larsen and infielder Andy Caray from Kansas City. One week later the Sox began a 12-game winning streak that saved the season. They beat up Minnesota, Cleveland, Washington and Detroit during it. They’d rebound from last place in May to finish fourth at 86-76-1. Herbert would then go on to win 20 games in 1962. June 10, 1964 - Sox manager Al Lopez was hanged in effigy in the players parking lot by angry fans. It all stemmed from the feud that developed between Gold Glove outfielder Jim Landis and Sox management. Landis, as the team player representative, went to management letting them know that unless the players got 50 dollars instead of a radio for appearing on major radio or TV stations, like WGN, they would no longer do so. G.M. Ed Short and Lopez then took the players demands out on him, the messenger, benching him for long stretches of the season. Sox fans, along with sports reporter/columnist Bill Gleason organized a ‘Jim Landis Night’ for the player but it wasn’t recognized by the team and Landis was held out of the lineup by Lopez in favor of “Minnie” Minoso. Sox fans showered the outfield with envelopes containing money for Landis only to have Minoso pick them up and tuck them into his pocket! The Sox won the game 2-1 against the Orioles. June 10, 2011 – Sox first baseman Paul Konerko set the franchise record when he got an extra base hit in his ninth consecutive game. The streak started back on May 30 in Boston and included games against Detroit, Seattle and Oakland. In that time frame Konerko bashed six home runs and three doubles. He drove in 12 RBI’s.

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